GAULTOIS HARBOR LONG ISLAND ROCK. 199 



a height of 819 feet ; its coasts are much indented, and contain several 

 harbors available for small vessels. 



Gaultois harbor, on the southern side of Long island and about 

 a mile westward of Margery head, is small, and there are some islets 

 in the middle of its entrance. Whale or Lamy islet, on which is a 

 boiling house for whale oil, is the northern of these islets, and it, 

 open eastward of West head, bearing 13°, leads eastward of a rock 

 with 3 feet of water over it, lying 50 yards southward of the head, 

 after passing which keep West head aboard. 



Light. — A red iron column, placed on a rock (awash at high 

 water) off West head, exhibits at 14 feet above high water a fixed 

 white light. 



A tramway, on which the light is run out, extends from a small 

 store on West head to the column. The light, kept on a bearing 6°, 

 leads eastward of the sunken rock above mentioned. 



Buoy. — A mooring buoy is placed about 200 yards Avestward of 

 Whale islet. 



Anchorage. — Vessels anchor in 2-t fathoms of water, avoiding the 

 heavy moorings laid from Whale island to the opposite shore, or 

 they make fast to the buoy. 



Ice. — Field ice arrives about the middle of February and leaves 

 toward the end of March; Gaultois harbor seldom freezes except 

 during severe winters with calm weather, and the ice generally 

 breaks up in a few days. 



Tides. — It is high Avater, full and change, in Gaultois harbor at 8h. 

 45m. (approximately) ; springs rise 7 feet, neaps 4| feet. 



Picarre harbor, If miles westward of Gaultois, is 400 yards wide; 

 on the eastern side of the entrance is a shoal, with 16 feet of water 

 over it, bearing 197°, distant 300 yards from Crow nest, the eastern 

 entrance point; also Mad Doll, drying 2 feet, and Crazy Betty, dry- 

 ing 1^ feet. 



The western side of the harbor must be kept aboard to clear these 

 shoals; the Narrows, at the head of the harbor, shut in with Buffett 

 point, I mile inside the entrance on the western side, bearing 13°, 

 clears them, and there is anchorage immediately within Crazy Betty 

 in 11 to 13 fathoms water, or for small vessels as far in as the 

 Narrows. 



Round harbor is 2f miles westward of Picarre, and its entrance 

 is 200 feet wide. It is only suitable for small vessels. 



Little Bay and Sam Hitches harbor are two narrow inlets 

 entered at about 2 miles westward of Round harbor. They afford 

 anchorage to small craft only. 



Long Island rock, bearing 232°, distant ^ mile from Western 

 head, the southwestern point of Long island, is 10 feet high and 

 steep-to. 



